Lab 3 Flashcards
Staphylococcus: - Habitat, Morphology, Staining
Habitat:
- skin, mucous membrane, food, feed, plant, soil and water.
Morphology:
- coccus, clusters (spherical), bunches of grape
Staining: - Gram +
Staphylococcus: - culture
- simple: nutrient agar, nutrient broth
- pigment production: golden yellow, white, carotenoid
- haemolysis: B-hemolysis (in some species double haemolysis), no haemolysis.
- selective culture:
10% NaCl - mannitol - phenol red agar.
Na-tellurite - glycine - pyruvic acid - egg (baird-parker agar)
(10 % NaCl= results in high osmotic pressure, if fermetation –> acids will be produced)
Staphylococcus: - Biochemistry
Catalase +, oxidase -, fermentative
Extracellular enzymes (virulence factors):
- coagulase (coagulation, produces fibrinogen), fibrinolysin (liquidifying. Lyse the plasma), hyaluronidase.
Surface protein: Protein A Toxins:
- haemolysins: damage WBC´s
- Leucocidins: damage WBC´s + increase damage of the host
- enterotoxins, dermotoxin (exfoliative toxin), Toxic shoch syndome (TSST)
Staphylococcus: - Antigens
- complex (surface proteins, polysaccharides)
- Protein-A: Can bind Immunoglobulins on the FC-end. As a result the bacteria will be surrounded with the IM of the host –> protection
Staphylococcus: - Resistance - Pathogenicity
- Good resistance (produces spore)
Pathogenicity:
- local suppuration, abscesses, arthritis, mastitis, metritis, dermatitis, septicaemia.
Staphylococcus:
- species, pathogenicity
Staphylococcus:
- virulence factors
- extra cellular enxymes
- toxins
- protein A
Staphylococcus:
- coagulase positive species
S. aureus susp. aureus:
- biotypes, different hosts.
- cattle, swine, horse, sheep dog, poultry
- MRSA: methicilin resistant S.aureus: human, dog, horse pig
S. Aureus subsp. anaerobius:
- sheep: Morel-disease
S. pseudointermedius:
- dog, cat: dermatitis, otitis externa
S. intermedius:
- dog, horse, birds: mucous membranes
- saprophyte
Staphylococcus:
- coagulase negative species
S. epidermis:
- wound infection (horse, dog)
S. haemolyticus
- milkt
s. hyicus: - a part of the strains in coagulase positive
- porcine exudative epidermitis
S. gallinarum
- dermatitis
S. equorum
- dermatitis
s. felis: - dermatitis
Micrococcus:
- Habitat
- morphology
- biochemistry
- pathogenicity
- Habitat: environment, mucous membrane, food, skin
- Morphology: coocus, clusters
- Biochemistry: decomposition of glucose is aerobic or missing
- pathogenicity: saprophyte, to be differentiated from Staphylococci
Streptococcus:
- Habitat
- Morphology
- Staining
- Habitat: skin, mucous membrane, food, milk
- Morphology: spherical (coccus), chain, diplococci.
capsule: only on some species, hyaluronic acid or polysaccharide. - staining: gram +
Streptococcus:
- culture
Fastidious:
- blood agar, serum agar
- some strains need CO2
Selective vulture:
- crystal violet (inhibition of Gram+), thallium-SO4 (inhibition of Gram -), esculin, blood (edwards-agar)
Haemolysis:
- alpha-hemolysis (Hb is not completely decomposed)
- beta-haemolysis
- no haemolysis (gamma-haemolysis)
Streptococcus
- Biochemistry:
- catalase -, oxidase -, fermentative
- utilisation of lycosides: esculin, salicin
- extracellular enzymes: fibrinolysin, hyaluronidase, nucleases, proteases
- toxins
- some trains produce bacteriocins (probiotics)
Streptococcus:
- Antigens
- complex
- group specific polysaccharide antigens: Lancefield A-V
- other type specific antigens
- S.suis, S.pneumoniae: polysaccharide capsule antigens
Streptococcus:
- resistance
- pathogenicity
Resistance: medium
Pathogenicity:
- local suppuration
- metritis, mastitis, arthritis
- septicaemia, strangles
- pneumonitc diseases
- virulence factors: capsule, toxins, haemolysines, extra cellular enzymes, some surface proteins
Streptococcus:
- grouping
- haemolysis
- biochemical characteristics
- antigens
- genome structure
- groups: pyogenic streptococci, oral streptococci, anginosus streptococci
Streptococcus:
- s. pyogens
- capsule
- some strains produce erythorgen toxin
- bacteriophage envodes, phage conversion
human:
- scarlet fever, purulent infections, rheumatic fever, human erysipelas, glomerulonephritis